Somerset: Storm Ciarán causes flooding and disruption
Storm Ciarán is causing flooding, school closures and power cuts across Somerset and Wiltshire as a yellow weather warning for wind and rain remains in place.
An overturned caravan caused long delays on Thursday morning on the M5 southbound between J22 and J23 .Around 200 properties in Somerset are without power - with the National Grid showing problems in Weston-super-Mare, Wedmore and Bridgwater.A Hinkley Point C spokesperson said: "Our construction workforce will be taken off site by our bus fleet and office-based staff will continue working as normal.
The site has a daily workforce of around 10,000 people, with the large majority of them being daytime construction shift workers.Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said they have attended 17 incidents relating to the storm overnight and into Thursday morning across the two counties.Flooding has meant the railway line at Pewsey in Wiltshire is closed.
Somerset Council Highways say teams have responded to more than 100 incidents since Storm Ciarán hit.Ian Withers from the Environment Agency is based at Westover pumping station. He said that while the rivers are full, "everything is going to plan" and the pumping stations are doing everything they should."That’s a huge amount of water – we’re talking six or seven times more than we expect going through the river."Ian Withers from the Environment Agency has been monitoring water levels on the Somerset Levels.
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